Lead AI Engineer

Onsite 3 times per week in Atlanta, Georgia 30328

Must be willing to relocate within 2 weeks for day 1 onsite

Lead AI Engineer or Architect

Contract until 8/21/2026 with potential for extensions

Interview Mode: Video if not local to georgia

Job Description: Lead Software Development Engineer - (Acting as an AI Platform Engineer)

We are looking for a strategic and hands-on Lead AI Engineer to own and scale our enterprise AI platform capabilities. This role will serve as the primary owner of the IBM watsonx platform and Google Cloud Vertex AI platform , while providing support to Azure driving adoption, standardization, automation, and governance across the organization. The role also includes leading a team responsible for day-to-day AI model and application onboarding, pipeline automation, DevSecOps integration, BI tooling, and AI governance—including maintenance of IBM watsonx.governance and vertex AI.

This is a high-impact position suited for a technically strong leader who can lead technical team, architect solutions, scale platforms, and align multiple teams across engineering, data science, and business domains.

Mandatory Skills:

•Lead the team

• Platform

• Pipelines Automation (Data Pipelines, AI / Model Training Pipelines, Deploying Application, Models Automation through, CICD, IaC (Vertex AI, Azure, IBM watsonX)

• Provide templates for application automation

• Agentic AI pipelines

• Governance